 those of you who are here in the prayer room let's stand to our feet and those of you who are joining us from home this morning or online watching this later we just want to encourage you right now at the start wherever you're at to just go ahead and bring your full attention here into this next moment over the next hour or so we're going to build an altar where we minister to the heart of the Lord we bless his heart and in response he draws near to us and then we're going to spend some time just interceding and praying and turning our hearts deeply towards the Lord because we need him deeply so encourage you to have your bibles with you your journal whatever it is that today is going to help you stay focused your coffee maybe it just stay focused and connected with the heart of the Lord because prayer is not it's not the it's not the stirring or the earning of God's attention it's the turning everything else off so that we can become fully aware and fully engaged with the Father and to know that by his spirit he draws near to us and that we have audience and in that audience today if we were to walk into the presence of the Lord physically what would be our response our response would be nothing else matters it would be total kept captivated thoughts and affections and attentions we'd be overwhelmed by the swell and the love that emanates from him and the holiness that emanates from him every time in the Bible that you see someone have this christophany or theophany and encounter with the presence of God they fall on their face before him because there's nothing else that even comes close to comparing with him well my friend this morning we have that audience we may not see it with our eyes but he gives us the ability to see it with our heart to engage with them and it's not less real it's actually very very real Psalm 115 says not to us oh Lord not to us but to your name give glory for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness why should the nations say where is their God our God is in the heavens and he does all that he pleases human idols are silver and gold their works are made by their hands they have mouths but they do not speak eyes but they do not see ears but they do not hear noses but they do not smell they have hands but they cannot feel feet but they cannot walk and they do not make sounds in their throat and those who make them they come like them so do all who trust in them oh Israel trust in the Lord he is your help and shield so today playing on the name of the Lord cannot engage with him he's very real so today we take our eyes off of ourselves and we say Lord not to us but to your name be the glory not to us it's not about us we're not trying to make you and our image we want to draw close to you and let the glory of your presence transform us change us so Lord we bring our baggage we bring our emotions we bring our body we bring our spirit and we put it on the altar of worship and prayer as a living sacrifice this morning because you're worthy of the Jesus not to us but to your name because of your steadfast love and your faithfulness God we lift up thanksgiving we say thank you Father for drawing near to us for loving us for caring for us all the glory and all the honor is for you let's just wherever we're at begin to just verbalize awaken our spirit this morning by speaking forth words of thanksgiving and adoration living creatures the seraphim all they were saying was whole is the Lord of hosts the one we say whole but we say it anyways because let's let it sink in let's enter in and focus around to attach you to our own agendas you're not a god that will be recruited progressivized you're going to be decorated domesticated glimpse of your holiness it would vapor give us an Isaiah six glimpse in your temple once again the way the stains captivates our hearts that rebukes the wickedness and exalted would be your presence God like ourselves holy we submit to the potter's hand just as Isaiah said Lord would you touch our lips would you purify us prepare us and would you send us those carriers of your presence this is our prayer today Jesus pointing us and we want to invite you you can stay we're going to sit here that's just more devotional just ministering to the heart of the Lord and you may just want to sit and soak in that we invite you to stay we're going to ask that you just quietly leave please as we joining us online we invite you down later today at noon